There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
-
-
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. WELLS -
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLS -
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLS -
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLS -
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLS -
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLS -
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLS -
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS -
Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLS -
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. WELLS -
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLS -
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLS -
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLS -
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. WELLS -
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLS